Factors affecting metastases to non-sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-76

  Fleming, F J ^a   Kavanagh, D ^a   Crotty, T B ^a   Quinn, C M ^a   McDermott, E W ^a   O'Higgins, N ^a   Hill, A D K ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 0345863815     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.57.1.73     Document Type: Article

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